Federal census-participate or joke/privacy invasion??

[shootingstar]

Naw, got nuthin' to do with the '70s, except that we were younger then. We have a name for it now, "identity theft," is all.

I miss being 17... except that I don't. Now, I'm concerned about my ability to get medical care, and the hassles I might go through protecting what little money I have.

There is less tendency for Canadians to deal with private sector parties for medical insurance coverage since our health care system is completely different. Of course, it doesn't guarantee completely our data is sealproof protected.

Medical identity theft is real..just ask any physician.

As for data mining: Though there's the pressure professionally to post employment history in LinkedIn and elsewhere on Internet when job hunting, I still am not comfortable for reasons of stolen identity or misunderstood identity. But alot of my colleagues are posting their employment history with a certain amount of detail.

The justification on the other side is some transparency makes one more 'approachable' in terms of work-related networking and other types of social networking. Or whatever one writes/presents on the Internet is a form of evidence for one's achievements. In certain fields (including mine), employers expect nowadays to see some form of online publication or online product as some evidence for one's Internet literacy and basic ability to work with certain web software even from a design perspective. In a way, some of the evidence, can also be self-protection also combined with real publication in hard copy documents..since web content on the Internet can disappear.

But then we can move into ranting about content theft, plagarism and copyright violations..